Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-11

Judge ". w. lOWefS Oh kalamaZOo, mas
moved TO Salt Lake City.
Matthew Ebare of lshpeming, has been
fined $50 for shooting deer.
Barbanabus l.. Chaplin, leading bust
ness man OF jackson, is dead.
The Wolverine prohi';rion club has
filed articles of incorporation.
iceland, Ottawa county, will celebrate
its 40th anniversary Aug. 18th.
Miss F, NJ. Fowle has been elected
school examiner for Otsego county.
About 800 acres of swamp land near
Little Black lake will be reclaimed.
Some nameless disease has been carry
ing of young colts in lonia county.
There are 7.22s Maccabees in Michigan,
an increase OF 1000 in the past year.
A stock company has been formed in
Cadillac for the manufacture OF brick.
State Geologist Wright is collecting data
about Michigan gas wells and will report.
Sam Pascoe, a Cornish miner, was killed
in the Ludington mine ut Iron Mountain.
Speaker Markey and Representative
Dekema have started q law firm at Grand
Rapids.
Chas. S. Mechem and f. C. Adams
started from Battle Creek for Boston on
bicycles.
Timothy Mccarthy had his heel crushed
to a jelly on the Flint 81 Pere Marquette
at Flint.
A balloon sent mp n. Fathe, Van Laurie's
festival at Port Huron was found at Corn
wall, Ont
Soldiers and sailors of Northwestern
Michigan will ''reune' at Reed City Sep
TENDER 6-S.
Relatives of Wernan, the Grand Rapids
murderer, sent $50 for his funeral ana he
was buried.
Reports from the woods. marshes and
fields promise excellent hunting when the
season opens.
Hundreds of cords of wood and much
valuable timber were burned near Bangor
the other day.
The school for the blind opens at Ian
sing Sept. Il. Board, tuition and care
free of charge.
Uncle Sam las begun dredging Cbeboy-
gan river to uniform depth of III feet up
as far as needed.
A farmer near Lansing named Dix lost
n valuable orchard by fire. Sparks from
a Grand Trunk engine.
Hugh f. Race has been appointed SUI
per!ntendent for the blind at Lansing for
one year, vice McElroy.
The Lansing reform school will receive
$500 yards Of cashmere. The boys will
make their own clothes.
A fire is raging in the Calumet and Hec-
la mine. over 1000 are thrown out of
employment in consequence.
The Flint X Pere Marquette have con-
tracted to carry 10, 900. 900 barrels OF salt
across the state to Lake Michigan.
William Forsyth of Carroton, charged
with attempting to shoot his brother-in-
law, Isaac Newton, has been discharged.
Clarence w. Ashford. encouragement
Of the Hawaiian Islands, graduated at the
law department of the university in 1850.
Richard Sykes of Vicksburg mourns
the loss by fire of five stacks Of wheat and
three of hay, and nary cent of insurance.
The machinery in the old BegOle, Fox d
Co.. saw mill will lie sent to the Indian
territory and there set up in the new mill.
Edward Land, while intoxicated, laid
down on log railroad track near Mud
Lake. The funeral took place the next
day.
L. w. Horton of Addison, Lenawee
county, was found dead on the highway
five miles south of Saranac. Overcome by
the heat.
The soldiers and sailors encampment
at Three Rivers, Aug. 1926, promises a
fine time for the boys. Eight prize tour
namentS.
George Case, well-known citizen of
Kalamazoo. died recently at Santa Anna,
Cal. The remains were brought TO kala-
maZoo for burial.
Twelve acres of hay on Chas. Taylor's
farm near Bangor were burned few days
ago. The fire was started by spark from
passing engine.
Rumor hath it that when the Kalama-
700 IL Hastings railroad is completed, 1t
will be under the management of the
Michigan Central.
Part of the second floor OF the Gale manu-
featuring company's works at Albion
gave way the other day. Three workman
were badly injured.
w. ii. Mills, patient in the asylum at
Traverse City, committed suicide a few
days ago by hanging. No blame is at
ldCflCu W llt dsy luil dutHOlitlCs
George Vannatter of Anderson, had to
90 four miles out of his way To get home
on account of forest fires Two spokes
were burned out Of his buggy as it was.
Judge Bayless died i'm Benton HarbOr
few days ago. He was a prominent poll
tician, and held the position of receiver OF
public moneys at Yankton, Dakota, under
Grant,
The steamer Hiawatha, plying between
Port Huron and Sarnia, was burned at the
dock in Port Huron the other night. Five
minutes after the fire was discovered the
vessel was doomed.
Rev. J. W. Holt who died I'm Midland
recently. was pioneer missionary among
the Indians of this state many years ago.
He was GO years of age and served his
church i'm Michigan 40 years.
+. Vandecar S new barn burned at Deer
field. With it 100 bushels of wheat, $50
of barley, 10 tons of hay. agricultural i'm
plements, two hogs and a couple OF colts.
Loss, So, 900; insurance. $500.
Fred McNair, farmer living near Hast
ings, mourns the loss of nearly his entire
wheat and oats crops which were burned
the other day. The fire caught from the
sparks of thrashing machine.
George Kepple disappeared from Bay
City last May. Two hundred dollars re-
ward is offered for his body. $500 for the
conviction of the murderer, If he Is dead
and $50 for proof that Kepple still lives
The Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad
company have offered for sale all of their
| pine lands in Lake county. Sealed bids
will be received by w. o. Hughart land
commissioner, to be opened Oct / next